This is too funny!

Others may think this is "cute" or "too funny". I just think it is rude and vulgar. Likewise I refuse to purchase, or even look at, the "Stitch and .....' series.

Just another opnion.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I won't buy the S&B books either - because there is nothing in them that I care to knit, or that I can't kludge up on my own.

I knit with balls all the time and I'm not male: I wind center-pull balls on the ballwinder, or wind them by hand if the hank is small and the yarn is fat. Absolutely nothing wrong about knitting with balls, and it's much easier and more portable than knitting from hanks...

Yes, well, I knew there would be some who wouldn't see the humour in it. That's too bad for you. And really, the so-called rudeness in the title is more in your mind than anything else. I knit with balls many times - balls of yarn - nothing else. So, who is being rude here?

That's the last I intend to say on it. Have a good day.

Shelagh

Shillelagh wrote: So, who is being rude here?

Ah yes, now that you are both being challenged on it, you retract.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

"Shillelagh" skrev i melding news:00_9h.12905$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe13.lga...

OH!!! I didn't know there was a THIRD way of knitting, I have heard about the American Way and the Coninental Way... Aud ;-0

Very nice.

Higs, Katherine

You aren't accusing me of retracting anything, I hope?

It's a term that means cobble together, or make do with what you've got to put something together. Or something along those lines... In this instance, Wooly means the patterns are basic/simple enough she can make up her own.

sue

Yep, what Suzee said :D

I said I wasn't going to say anything more - and you are trying to make me say something - so here it is - I haven't retracted anything. I don't intend to start a pissing contest with you. If you find my posts rude - then put me on a kill file, you won't hurt my feelings. Now this is truly the last I intend to say about it. If you want the last word - please - have it.

Shelagh

WoolyGooly what is the meaning of Kludge

never saw trhis term before ? mirjam

I like that name , it has humor,,, much better than selling everything with a naked lady over the title , i always roll all my wool into balls, much easier to knit from .. mirjam

Olwyn Mary ,, i am now speaking as an artist as a woman of 63 [did i say that ?] a feminist ,,,, There are so many things that are sold with Rude , Brutal, Abusive AntiFeminist symbols,remarks, and pictures. We have become used to the idea ,that it is ok , to do it, but when a title hints jokingly and delicately to the other gender, you find it rude. In an ideal world i would have agreed with you , but now we have to TURN the tables, and agree and understand that this kind of titles will teach and educate men , to be more considerate with Female sensitivities ,,, mirjam